# Stupid liberal idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 20, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086 "2011-04-20T15:35:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 324
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6461 "2017-10-10T16:03:50Z")
**D’Anconia** _et al_: [Here is what a true Stupid Liberal Idea looks like](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=838482), and look, plenty of liberals agree. Lawn mower girl, nudity afficionados, and the other shit I’ve read in the last 100-150 posts…not so much. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6462 "2017-10-10T16:14:05Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > **D’Anconia** _et al_: > > [Here is what a true Stupid Liberal Idea looks like](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=838482), and look, plenty of liberals agree. Lawn mower girl, nudity afficionados, and the other shit I’ve read in the last 100-150 posts…not so much. Someone double-clutched on “stupid”. They’re all looking for _stupid_ Stupid Liberal Ideas. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6463 "2017-10-10T18:09:07Z")
To me, a stupid liberal idea would be firing a firefighter for bringing a watermelon to work. Unless there is more back story to it that isn’t being reported. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6464 "2017-10-10T18:12:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > To me, a stupid liberal idea would be firing a firefighter for bringing a watermelon to work. Unless there is more back story to it that isn’t being reported. Didn’t bring enough for everyone? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6465 "2017-10-10T18:15:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > To me, a stupid liberal idea would be firing a firefighter for bringing a watermelon to work. Unless there is more back story to it that isn’t being reported. [The story.](http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/detroit-firefighter-fired-for-bringing-watermelon-to-station) > [@](#): > > Earlier this month, 41-year-old Robert Pattison went to introduce himself to his fellow firefighters at Engine 55 at Joy and Southfield in Detroit. Second Battalion Chief Shawn McCarty calls it a tradition for firefighters. > > “It’s not mandatory, it’s voluntary,” he says. “You come in bearing gifts. The usual gift is doughnuts, but you are allowed to bring whatever you want to bring in.” > > And Pattison, a probationary firefighter, decided to bring a watermelon wrapped in a pink ribbon. **We’re told some African-American firefighters were instantly offended, since 90 percent of the people who work at Engine 55 are black.** > > In a statement Jones says: "There is zero tolerance for discriminatory behavior inside the Detroit Fire Department. On Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017, at Engine 55, a trial firefighter **(probationary employee)** engaged in unsatisfactory work behavior which was deemed offensive and racially insensitive to members of the Detroit Fire Department. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6466 "2017-10-10T18:49:50Z")
"“When you get your first detail at a firehouse, you pretty much know what you are getting yourself into,” said Engine 55 firefighter Patrick Trout. “So you would have to say it was probably a bad call.” The fire commissioner said Pattinson was officially discharged before he officially started the job. Pattison said it was not a joke and that he did not mean to offend anyone." BULLSHIT. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6467 "2017-10-10T21:20:30Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Curious about this myself - if it’s not soccer, cricket comes to mind, but that’s not popular everywhere but the U.S. It seems popular mainly in some former British Empire countries, and not even all of them. I’ve never seen a cricket match in Canada, for example. Yes, I was thinking of cricket. As sports go, it has much broader reach than american football but is almost unknown in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6468 "2017-10-11T03:13:39Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > And Weinstein has been fired. > > [Harvey Weinstein Terminated from Weinstein Company](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harvey-weinstein-at-weinstein-1046874) > > Sorry, **adaher**. And now Weinstein’s wife is leaving him. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/10/10/georgina-chapman-is-leaving-harvey-weinstein-amidst-sexual-harassment-accusations-report-says/?utm\_term=.c4a0f1081b47](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/10/10/georgina-chapman-is-leaving-harvey-weinstein-amidst-sexual-harassment-accusations-report-says/?utm_term=.c4a0f1081b47) I know **adaher** was pulling for him (although perhaps not as much as Weinstein was pulling for himself - hey-oh!) but it looks like Weinstein’s life is pretty much collapsing as these terrible liberal hypocrites rush to distance themselves from a horrible person. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6469 "2017-10-11T03:14:35Z")
And the more powerful the liberal, the more time they took.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6470 "2017-10-11T03:17:15Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > And now Weinstein’s wife is leaving him. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/10/10/georgina-chapman-is-leaving-harvey-weinstein-amidst-sexual-harassment-accusations-report-says/?utm\_term=.c4a0f1081b47](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/10/10/georgina-chapman-is-leaving-harvey-weinstein-amidst-sexual-harassment-accusations-report-says/?utm_term=.c4a0f1081b47) > > I know **adaher** was pulling for him (although perhaps not as much as Weinstein was pulling for himself - hey-oh!) but it looks like Weinstein’s life is pretty much collapsing as these terrible liberal hypocrites rush to distance themselves from a horrible person. Must awful that liberals won’t behave the way you’ve always imagined them behaving. Puts a real crimp in the ol’ false equivalency game. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6471 "2017-10-11T03:19:43Z")
If you’d read my post a little better you’d notice I was talking about what Weinstein wanted liberals to do, not what I wanted them to do. Weinstein was the stupid liberal in this thread, not liberals in general. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6472 "2017-10-11T03:19:47Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > And the more powerful the liberal, the more time they took.🙂 I’m gonna have to give his wife a little leeway to take some time to decide whether or not to dissolve their marriage. 'Cuz that’s kind of a big decision. But, you were of the opinion that he really shouldn’t have been punished for being a serial sexual predator, right? If you didn’t think he should suffer the relatively minor consequence of losing his job, surely you think his wife leaving him is just terribly unfair and excessive, right? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6473 "2017-10-11T03:48:52Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Yes, I was thinking of cricket. As sports go, it has much broader reach than american football but is almost unknown in the US. It’s almost unknown in a lot of places other than the U.S. Anyway, regard Weinstein, I’m vaguely annoyed at the crap about him seeking counseling for his “demons” etc. I’d’ve preferred honesty, i.e. “Well, there were eight hot women who turned me down, but twenty just as hot women who didn’t, so while I admit I was a jerk and a creep, you only live once, y’know?” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6474 "2017-10-11T11:48:58Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > If you’d read my post a little better you’d notice I was talking about what Weinstein wanted liberals to do, not what I wanted them to do. Weinstein was the stupid liberal in this thread, not liberals in general. You still haven’t pointed out what liberalism has to do with the situation, in any way. Nor have you even tried to explain why you continued to support a known pussy-grabber. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6475 "2017-10-11T12:36:49Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > You still haven’t pointed out what liberalism has to do with the situation, in any way. Nor have you even tried to explain why you continued to support a known pussy-grabber. Well, he did start off saying liberals would give him a pass, which sure would have reflected poorly on liberals. But when exactly zero liberals defended Weinstein, **adaher** took up the cause and defended him. See, definitely a SLIOTD! Oh. Wait… ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6476 "2017-10-11T13:30:30Z")
Strawman Liberal has been steadfast in his support for Weinstein. But he’s an asshole, so fuck him. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6477 "2017-10-11T15:00:18Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > And the more powerful the liberal, the more time they took.🙂 What do you mean by powerful? Actors? Other show biz workers? The secret liberal cabal that seeks to destroy America? I don’t get what you’re implying. The pussy-grabber-in-chief still has powerful supporters. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6478 "2017-10-11T15:03:41Z")
Multiple counts of blatant sexual harrassment, by two rich, ugly, old, white guys. The “liberal” gets fired from his own company. The “conservative” gets elected President. Forget it, **adaher** , you lost this round. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6479 "2017-10-11T15:29:23Z")
That is a bold assumption. For all we know, **adaher** supports pussy grabbing and other form of demeaning women for pleasure. If he partakes, how could he deplore it? That would be dishonest. ---
**Author:** ![SaneBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SaneBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaneBill)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/6480 "2017-10-11T16:05:47Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > If you’d read my post a little better you’d notice I was talking about what Weinstein wanted liberals to do, not what I wanted them to do. Weinstein was the stupid liberal in this thread, not liberals in general. A little advice for you. If you decide to lie about something, make sure it’s not something that’s written down for everyone to see. > [@adaher](#): > > I’ve noticed that liberals often get a pass for their personal sins as long as they support the right causes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086.md?page=323) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086.md?page=325)